Long 19th c. · 1838–1917
Who influenced Franz Brentano?
Influences and legacy
Revived intentionality — every mind is about something — and launched phenomenology's lineage.
Franz Brentano was influenced by Aristotle, and went on to influence Edmund Husserl. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Franz Brentano?
Franz Brentano's Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874) brought the medieval concept of intentionality back into modern philosophy. A Catholic priest, he left the priesthood in 1873 over the dogma of papal infallibility.
As a professor he taught a generation of students, the School of Brentano, whose research spread into linguistics, logic, mathematics and experimental psychology.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Franz Brentano?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Aristotle 384–322 BC
Who did Franz Brentano influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Franz Brentano.
- Edmund Husserl 1859–1938
The line of teachers behind Franz Brentano
The longest documented line of influence ending at Franz Brentano runs 6 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Franz Brentano
Indirect influences
The second generation
Contemporaries of Franz Brentano
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Franz Brentano, with no direct line between them.
- Ernst Mach 1838–1916
- Henry Sidgwick 1838–1900
- Charles Sanders Peirce 1839–1914
- T. H. Green 1836–1882
- William James 1842–1910
- Peter Kropotkin 1842–1921
- Wilhelm Dilthey 1833–1911
- Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900
Franz Brentano by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 15
- Thinkers downstream
- 17
- Wikipedia languages
- 39 — #38 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Franz Brentano
- Who influenced Franz Brentano?
- Aristotle.
- Who did Franz Brentano influence?
- Edmund Husserl.
- When did Franz Brentano live?
- 1838–1917. The map files Franz Brentano under the long 19th century.
- How rare is the Franz Brentano card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Franz Brentano in 39 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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